VHS to DVD problems

[powerup]

I am recording my old VHS tapes to my hard drive and burning them to DVD. I have a Hauppauge pvr 150. I am using a coax cable to hook up my VCR to the PVR. After I burn it and take a look at the dvd on the regular tv it looks like crap very blocky/digital looking and often I can not make out faces that when I look at the VHS tape look just fine. Is this because of the coax cable. should I use the S video instead? My vcr is old and does not have s video is there an adapter out there? Thanks for any input

 

[yukichigai]

If the video looks okay on your computer when you look at the captured file then it's definitely an encoding problem. VHS tapes are incapable of outputting any resolution higher than 352x240, which is a valid DVD resolution. I suggest setting your DVD-video encoder to use 352x240 to encode the video; make sure you have it use Variable Bitrate encoding, or Constant Quality, or something similar.

You can PM me if you want more help, but I probably won't get back to you for about a week. In the meantime, look at this handy guide I wrote up on how to do it with TMPGEnc.

 

[powerup]

I am using mpeg 2. I am going to try out soem other bit rates. your web site is not working at the moment.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: powerup
I am using mpeg 2. I am going to try out soem other bit rates. your web site is not working at the moment.

Reload until it does. Netscape is the crappiest webhost in history.